TheFoggBlogg: Imagine the possibilities...

By necessity, I'm starting this in the middle— early in the book, at the beginning of "the work"— and for most of you reading this, it's going to be like taking a dance class or showing up at an Akido dojo for the first time. Everybody but you knows the moves, what's coming, what to do. You stand there looking around and akwardly emulating what the others are doing.

Not to worry. You'll get it. In time. Here goes...

"Imagine the Possibilities" was the tag-line Apple Computer used for the TV commercial which introduced the use of the Intel chip in their new Macintosh computer line in 2006.

In The Power To Transform, the "assessments" (opinions, judgments, thoughts, emotions, editorial comments, interpretations, etceteras...) we make up and/or accept either OPEN or CLOSE possibilities for taking action in our lives.

Open and Close are neither good or bad. Paraphrasing William Shakespeare...

There is nothing either good or bad but "assessment" makes it so.

What our assessments do is OPEN some specific possibilites for action and CLOSE others. For example:

In working with one of my Mentor-Coaching people one-on-one today, we explored her question of "What's the value in going back to the earliest time you can remember someone making a given assessment about you?"

Rita had trained herself to leave the past behind, so going back to childhoold memories & experiences was a "Don't go there" for her.

Neither true nor false. Simply an assessment. Point is: What possibilities does that assessment OPEN and CLOSE? I.e.; "Go back and look at when that assessment first occurred & who delivered it?" What's the benefit of doing that?

Deal is (for starters), if you don't connect with that "early, first time," you cannot complete it. And things that are INcomplete drain your energy for moving forward. Think unpaid bills... communications wanted, but not made... promises un-kept... like that.

More? Yeah. The opportunity to come to terms with the "cause" of the assessment that you're acting out of. The knowing of whether or not the assessment is grounded or not, and your ability to MOVE one way or the other— based on that assessment.

I know. I know. Magical Mystery Tour. ("Roll up, roll up.") Hang in.

All assessments are neither TRUE nor FALSE. More of the deal is it's just an assessment. Cheaper than a dime a dozen and NOT meaning anything. All and always made up. Yet we ACT out of our assessments.

So... How do you want to act?

Assess this way or that way and...